Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your item about Mrs. Margaret Lockwood, [who protested the Internal Revenue Service's attachment of her husband's paycheck by camping with her two infants at the tax collector's desk-Sept. 7]. We had similar troubles with the Internal Revenue Service. They attached my husband's check, and it was either pay up or lose his job. The ironic part of the whole deal was that it was their mistake, and a five-year-old error, at that. Hurrah for Mrs. Lockwood...
...clear that De Gaulle detested the first alternative, considered the second impractical. His own preference, he made plain, was the third alternative-self-government of a type similar to that now operating in the twelve nations of France's new African Community. But even this would not come until the fighting was over: Algerians, proclaimed De Gaulle, would make their decision in elections to be held "at the latest four years after the actual restoration of peace; that is to say, once a situation has been established in which not more than 200 people a year lose their lives...
...Rabbi Hertzberg (of Temple Emanu-El, Englewood, N.J.) denies both these statements. American Jews may be losing their identity as an ethnic minority, but the percentage affiliated with synagogues has risen strikingly. Many of the new members seek togetherness rather than real religion, but Hertzberg thinks Christian sects have similar problems...
Hardly a week goes by without the addition of similar establishments built to boost the ever-affluent style in which Americans bowl, provide a broad range of services to make more friends-and win new bowlers-in the community. Examples...
...Modern Republicans," they silently support the stock solution to a growing list of problems: call on Washington. Of course, Federal action may be the best (and in some cases, the only) solution to many modern-day challenges--but this is not the point. That this stock answer and similar slogans are passively accepted by many "moderate liberals"--often without intellectual study of the economic and political implications involved for our society, but in smug and self-satisfied silence--this is the danger. By his willingness to "go along," the "moderate liberal" in name becomes the Respectable Radical in practice...